Oryctothemis Handlirsch 1906 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640

Parent taxon: Odonata according to A. Nel et al. 1993

See also Carpenter 1992, Cowley 1942, Handlirsch 1906 and Tillyard 1925

Sister taxa: Anisozygoptera, Epiproctophora, Hageniella, Hageniella problematica, Haidilaozhenidae, Idionychidae, Kobdoneura, Liassophlebia clavigaster, Liassophlebia hopei, Libellula decapitata, Libellulina, Mesomantidiidae, Mesonetopsis, Orthaeschnites, Palaeophlebia, Peraphlebia, Proaeschna, Pseudoeuphaea, Pseudoeuphaea areolata, Pseudoeuphaea falsificata, Pseudoeuphaea filosa, Pseudoeuphaea obscura, Sogdothemis, Syrrhoe, Triassophlebia, Zygoptera

Subtaxa: Oryctothemis hageni

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

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